Report: Nursing Homes Need Help
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Advocates for nursing home residents claim a
seminar put on by nursing home operators sought to teach employees
how to deceive state inspectors about the quality and level of
care.
An industry spokesman says patient advocates misrepresented the
seminar, titled "Outwit, Outlast, Outplay -- Survive the Survey
Process."
The seminar was presented at the Arkansas Health Care
Association`s fall meeting today.
Patient advocates are urging Governor Huckabee to exclude
nursing home tort legislation that died during the regular session
last spring from a planned December special session on education
reform.
Nursing home operator Jim Cooper of Melbourne says the seminar
involved a registered nurse instructing personnel how to do their
jobs, particularly how to give proper incontinence care, with
inspectors looking over their shoulders.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
